Confidence & Self-Worth - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Self-Mastery Become Your Best · Sep 23, 2026 · 9m

This episode explores why capable people can still feel undeserving of their success and fear being exposed as a fraud. Drawing on Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes’ original work on the imposter phenomenon, Carol Dweck’s growth mindset research, Thomas Curran’s work on perfectionism, Albert Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, and Kristin Neff’s research on self-compassion, it explains how distorted attribution, perfectionism, social comparison, and difficulty internalizing success can reinforce self-doubt.

The episode emphasizes replacing vague insecurity with evidence: recognizing…